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Old 21st May 2008
DrJ DrJ is offline
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UCB distributed their tapes for free (or darned close -- shipping, media and all that). To be useful it required the recipient to hold a valid Unix license. Pretty much all the major academic institutions had Unix licenses so that was no big deal.

You have no idea how cool Unix was back in those days. Most of us still worked on punch cards.
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